Time for another update!

I know that I keep talking about upcoming projects, yet none have launched yet… Typically I’ve put quite a lot on my plate and am trying to complete several projects for launch asap. One of these ventures is moving into the photoshop tutorials field in a more serious way. I’ve found that my tutorials at Push Standards have received great success and drawn a lot of traffic, and I really feel that there is a great market potential for high quality Photoshop tutorials. There is also a lot of traffic to be drawn from very little effort.

My aim is to stop posting my tutorials on this site and create a separate site purely for Photoshop tutorials. This way I will be able to target my audience more specifically rather than diluting my tutorials with other content. I can’t say exactly when this site will be launching but I’m estimating the start of June (merely because I have exams fast approaching to conclude this year at University).

However, that isn’t to say that in the mean time I’ll stop writing tutorials! I’ve actually been hired by Michael Dunlop of Retireat21 to write Photoshop tutorials for his new website WebDesignDev. Both sites are excellent, and I highly recommend them. It’s very exciting to be involved over at WebDesignDev, and I feel privileged that Michael was interested in my services. He’s already getting a lot of traffic to the site and has some big names in the Photoshop industry involved.

He published my first tutorial today, a lesson on how to create a travel blog design from scratch. Don’t worry about the author being ‘Michael Dunlop’ currently, I’ll be receiving my own author account soon. You can see the finished result below, so please click the image to be linked to the full tutorial!

Check back soon for more updates. I’m currently developing my BIG project for the summer with my partner, and am also planning the marketing campaign for the music website that I mentioned a couple of posts ago.

Time for another Push Standards Photoshop tutorial folks!

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to design an authentic looking poster for a rock band. The steps are reasonably simple but the result is really interesting. As with a lot of my tutorials I wasn’t totally sure how this would end up looking, but it came together nicely at the end.

Here is the end result:

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Great news! I’ve finally completed the tutorial that you’ve all been waiting for. This tutorial will discuss how to create a fantastic grunge layout in Photoshop. It uses some techniques that are fairly common, and a couple that I’ve not seen discussed elsewhere before.

To give you an idea of what we’ll be creating here is the finished product. Click on the image to see the full sized version.

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This tutorial will focus on how to showcase your images in a far more impressive and attractive way. For this example I’ve used the Push Standards logo, but you can really use it with anything - icons, product boxes, website thumbnails etc… You will impress your clients and visitors far more than simply posting a regular boring image. Next time you launch a new competition on your blog, or announce a new product, why not really make it stand out!
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